"The U.S. incarceration rate in the U.S. is the highest in the world, with over 2.4 million people currently behind bars." - American Friends Service Committee

"According to the U.S. Bureau of Statistics (BJS), 2,220,300 adults were incarcerated in U.S. federal and state prisons, and county jails in 2013 -- about 0.91% of adults (1 in 110) in the U.S. resident population. Additionally, 4,751,400 adults in 2013 (1 in 51) were on probation or on parole." - Wikipedia

"I keep my husband's ashes in coffee cans in the trunk of the car. When I'm up at Tahoe and it's icy -- and I'm slippin or stuck on 89 -- I sprinkle some of his ashes under the back tires. Works good, like road sand -- the big chunks. Ha ha. Claus works harder dead than he did alive."

add: 9/17: Happy Eid al-Adha (September 11 to September 15) See blog for September 19th, 2015.

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